EDRS Price MF-S025 HC-S044 Descriptors-ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE. ATTITUDE TESTS, *CHANGING ATTITUDES. DEMOCRATIC VALUES. *EDUCATIONAL EXPERINENTS. *EDUCATION MAJORS. STUDENT TEACPER RELATIONSHIP. TEACHER ATTITUDES

A study investigated the relationship of traits measured by the California F Scale (a measure of anti-democratic attitudes) with changes in attitudes as measured by the Minnesota Teacher Attitude Inventory (MTAI) during a one-semester course of educational psychology. A 2 x 2 factorial design was used. classifying 132 sophomore education students into 4 groups depending on their placement in the upper or lower half of the distrbution of the MTAI and F scale scores. Analysis of MTAI posttest scores adjusted for MTAI pretest and College Qualification Test verbal scores supported the mator hypothesis: that students who have relatively high F scores wi show less positive change in attiudes on the MTAI than students who have relatively low F scores. But minor hypotheses were not supported:.there were no differences in MTAI gains between students in the upper and lower half of the distnbution of MTAI scores. and there was no interaction between the two factors. pre-MTAI and F score. It may be conduded that greater improvement in attitudes toward teacher and pupil relations may be expected of more critical and independent students (the naysayers expressing democratic attitudes) than may be expected of students characterized a